Item #144969 Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World's Fairs, 1851-1939. Jason T. Busch, Catherine L. Futter.
Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World's Fairs, 1851-1939
Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World's Fairs, 1851-1939

Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World's Fairs, 1851-1939

New York, New York: Skira Rizzoli, 2012. Hardcover. Color pictorial dj., black paper over boards; Color illus. endpapers; 303 pp.; Profusely illustrated in color. VG/VG. red remainder dot to bottom textblock. corners bumped or creased. spine edges creased w/ small indent. lower back cover edge has minor indent. interior clean. dustjacket cover has seam of peeling veener; creasing to spine edges & corners. Item #144969
ISBN: 9780847838097

Published in conjunction with the traveling exhibition of the same name, organized by the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City. Features ten essays by various authors, including "Modernity Revealed: The World's Fairs from 1900 to 1925" by Stephen Harrison, "Style through Science: Modern Industrial Design and the World's Fairs of the 1930s" by Kevin W. Tucker, "J. & L. Lobmeyr: A Case Study of Glass at the World's Fairs" by Jane Shadel Spillman, and more. Wonderfully illustrated, with many full-page color photos.

OCLC: 741540122

Price: $60.00